Name: Annalise Eak
Subject:
Personal Health
Grade: 3rd
Time:
Date: December 15, 2017
Title
of Lesson: Body Systems- The Digestive System
SUMMARY
WITH BIG IDEA AND ESSENTIAL
QUESTION:
This lesson will
introduce students to the digestive system. It will include
students using a
teacher-created website to guide some of their learning,
working with a partner
to create an image of their own body and its digestive
system, and describe
fairly simply how each part of the system works. The Big
Idea is introducing
students to their digestive system and teaching them the
importance of taking
care of it. The Essential Question is: What are the part of
the digestive
system and how do they work together to complete the
processes that keep our
body functioning, healthy and sustained?
MATERAILS
AND TECHNOLOGY NEEDED:
·
“The
Digestive System” website created by Ms. Eak
·
Kids
Health Digestive System website
(http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/digestive-system.html
·
Notebooks
·
Pens/pencils
·
Large
paper
·
Crayons,
markers or colored pencils
·
Either
a computer or a tablet for research and completion of the
online activity
·
Worksheet
for use with the online activity
LINKS TO
MA HEALTH STANDARDS:
1.1 Name the
external and internal parts of
the body and the body systems (nervous, muscular, skeletal,
circulatory,
respiratory, digestive, endocrine, and excretory systems)
1.7 Explain the
functions of human body systems and how body systems work
together.
LESSON
OBJECTIVES:
·
Students
will be able to describe, in words, the parts of the body
that make up the
digestive system.
·
Students
will be able to draw pictures of each part of the digestive
system and place it
in the correct location on a self-drawn picture of their own
body.
VOCABULARY:
·
Digestive
·
Mouth
·
Esophagus
·
Small
intestine
·
Large
intestine
·
Appendix
·
Colon
·
Rectum
·
Anus
·
Stomach
·
Liver
·
Nutrients
INSTRUCTIONAL
SEQUENCE:
1.
Students
will be introduced to the lesson by the teacher. The teacher
should give the
students a brief overview of the activities that will take
place. Information
about this could include
2.
Students
will receive a worksheet from the teacher that will guide
their work through
the online activity (included at the end of this lesson
plan).
3.
Each
student will go on a laptop or tablet, working alone, to
complete the brief 7
question quiz that is online. Students should complete the
worksheet as they
go, turning it in at the end of the activity for a formative
assessment grade.
4.
Students
will then choose a partner to work with on their body
outline. Teachers could
also adapt this to choose partners for the class using
popsicle sticks, or some
other random partner generator.
5.
Following
that, students will lay down in a “snow angel” type of
position on the large
piece of paper and have their partner outline their body
using a marker of
their choice. Students will switch roles (the person getting
outlined will now
be the drawer).
6.
After
that. students will use their worksheet to draw the parts of
the body that are included
in the digestive system. Students should draw the parts of
the body as close to
realistically as possible, adding information around it as
well. Teachers
should encourage students to be as creative as they want.
They can be
encouraged to write phrases or key information around the
outside of their
body, but should be required to draw the parts of the body
in the correct spot.
7.
If
students need more information, they should be encouraged to
go back online and
do more research. This new research could be added to the
back of their
worksheet or in their notebook.
8.
At
the end, students should hang up their drawings in a
determined space, like out
in the hall or in the classroom.
9.
The
teacher should have a conversation with the class about what
they learned,
maybe going over the worksheet as a class.
ASSESSMENT:
Students will be
assessed based off the worksheet they complete while doing
the online
assignment. This will be a formative assessment grade,
graded for completion
and accuracy for their own answers. Also, students will be
assessed based off
their self-drawings. Teachers should look for factual
accuracy along with
effort to get their summative grade.
Name:
Date:
.
Use the
website to complete this
worksheet. After each question, there will be room to add
more information that
you may have learned from more intense research.
1.
What
is the first part of the digestive system?
·
More
information
2.
How
long is the esophagus in inches?
·
More
information
3.
What is something
the stomach does not do?
·
More
information
4.
What
is the next part of the body after the stomach?
·
More
information
5.
What
does the liver do?
·
More
information
6.
How
far around, and how long is the large intestine if it’s
spread out?
·
More
information
7.
What
are the last four small parts of the digestive system,
starting from the one
closest to the large intestine?
·
More
information
8.
Did
you learn any extra information while completing this online
activity?